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The improvement of public lighting is an effective and economical way to enhance the attractiveness of urban downtown areas. Many cities in Germany and Europe have already recognized this fact and used master plans to create entirely new systems of urban lighting. They have been motivated to do so b... More

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of "Julius Caesar" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA... More

Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she’s grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients... More

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillio... More

Reissue of the worldwide bestseller by popular demand – a shocking true story of life behind the veil. In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell ... More

When attorney Dave Douglas is mysteriously turned into a sheep dog, he must uncover an evil plot to alter human DNA while also trying to reconnect with the family he has been neglecting. Original.... More

This book contains the sheet music for Tori Amos: MTV Unplugged.From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, "Little "Earthquakes, to the recent hit, "Scarlet' s Walk," Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In "Tori Amos: ... More

In his extraordinary new study of Diana’s last five years, Diana: In Pursuit of Love, Andrew Morton employs all his formidable skills as a researcher and investigative writer to set down what is all too often an edgy tale of bad faith, betrayal and cynical manipulation. Here too are elements t... More

Published annually since 1935, The International Whos Who is now in its seventy-first edition. Providing hard-to-find biographical details for over 20,000 of the worlds most prominent and influential personalities, this outstanding reference work records the lives and achievements of men and women f... More

In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past in colonial Rhodesia--now Zimbabwe--as she explores the heartbreak of loss and belonging, and finally discovers the true meaning of home.One Sunday morning in her suburban home ... More

This is the story of Baby Halder, a young woman working as a domestic help in a home in Delhi. Hurriedly married off at the age of twelve, a mother by the time she was fourteen, Baby writes movingly and evocatively of her life as a young girl, and later as a young woman. The long absences of her fat... More

We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house. In Victorian England ... More

The star of the film "Kandahar creates a moving memoir of life, childhood and friendship as her world collapses around her Nelofer Pazira was born into a privileged family living in Kabul. When she was six, the Russians invaded Afghanistan and her childhood ended. Her father, a respected doctor, was... More

Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" ("Chicago Tribune") chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait of her girlhood in Kabul, where the sound of gunfire and the sight of falling bombs sh... More

In this groundbreaking work, Sallie Tisdale traces women Buddhist masters and teachers across continents and centuries, drawing upon historical, cultural, and Buddhist records to bring to life these narratives of ancestral Buddhist women.In this groundbreaking work, Sallie Tisdale traces women Buddh... More

"Tania" recovers the history of the extraordinary woman who fought and died--at the age of 30--alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia. Author Ulises Estrada's personal photos and correspondence with Tania as well as testimonies from other guerrillas who fought with her are included.For the first time, the... More

Focusing on relationships between women of different generations in India, this book comprises of narratives demonstrating how each contributor established her own personhood through engagement with a wider kin group. Did the women portrayed in the narratives find space for themselves within orthodo... More

The goal of his book is to cover all relevant aspects including botanical identification, processing and major categories of tea, physiological and pharmacological effects, and experimental therapeutic effects. The therapeutic applications of tea based on traditional Chinese medicine are also includ... More